Blue Cross and Blue Shields Association Saint Leo University Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is one of the many major health insurance companies in the United States. The company was started by a man named Dr. Justin Ford Kimball in 1929. Kimball started the program because he noticed that teachers had a huge burden of medical bills in his area. He started a plan for teachers to be able to have a three week hospital stay covered for as little as fifty cents a month.
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens‚ set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold‚ it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.[2] The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution‚ the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution
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As in any novel‚ the characters of A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt are portrayed by the author as positive‚ neutral‚ or negative characters. In this particular book‚ the characters are excellent subjects to utilize the positive/negative analysis on because the characters in this book are scattered about the positive and negative spectrum. Some of the main characters are portrayed as purely negative; others are represented by the author as genuinely good people or as neutral individuals. However
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King‚ Jr. One of the most significant figures in the rise of the novel in the Restoration period(or The Long Eighteenth Century period) is Aphra Behn and her novella Oroonoko or the Royal slave. Although it is impossible to satisfactorily date the beginning of the novel in English‚ long fiction and fictional biographies began to distinguish themselves from other forms in England during this period(1). It is the first English novel to show Black Africans in a sympathetic manner. Oroonoko has been
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How‚ and to what extent‚ do the texts on this unit challenge the idea of “the novel‟? The conventions of “the traditional novel” are almost completely disregarded in twentieth century avant-garde fiction. According to Hutcheon‚ a healthy piece of postmodern fiction ‘paradoxically uses and abuses the conventions of both realism and modernism‚ and does so in order to challenge their transparency’ (1988‚ p. 53). Despite this‚ what effectively happens with avant-garde literature is that each text
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8/16/11 English Argumentative essay The novel‚ “Their Eyes Were Watching God”‚ focuses on a woman named Janie Crawford and her adventure for love and her struggle for independence. Since both of Janie’s parents were not in her life‚ she is forced to live with her grandmother. One
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Sometimes‚ individual gets the specific idea of the text and sometimes get the opposite. The only way to be certain about being right or wrong is to have secondary sources about that piece. One of the story that will be discussed in this essay is Sonny’s Blue by James Baldwin. This story is about kind of having higher expecting for one brother which gave the opposite outcome‚ Older brother started to regret about rejecting Sony’s decision when he realized Sony was made of music. Leaving Sonny’s
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single heading: fiction. Eudora Welty. John Updike. Vladimir Nabokov. Reynolds Price. A rare brush with fact is "More Matter‚" a collection of Updike ’s essays and criticism. Otherwise‚ don ’t expect any works of history or politics. Biographies? What ’s the point? She knows how the story will end. "It would be a better book if they just wrote a novel about that person‚" Tyler reasons during a recent sunny morning‚ a mug of coffee in her hands‚ her gray-dark hair pulled back in a bun. For nearly 50
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BOOK REVIEW BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and make the Competition Irrelevant W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne‚ 2005. BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant. Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. ISBN 1-59139-619-0. I find this book‚ Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant‚ is very informative. The only thing that I am not very fond of
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Eileen Goudge was born in San Mateo‚ California‚ and is the author of many novels (and even a cookbook) including a series of novels called the “Garden of Lies”‚ “Sweet Valley High” series (for teens)‚ and a mystery series called “Cypress Bay” series. Goudge has also written other stand alone works for readers of all kinds. She is the wife of a film critic; who she says is not her first but will be her last marriage. They met when he interviewed her on air on his radio talk show (he called her after
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